Oregon Woman Pleads Guilty After Feds Say She Stole Nearly $500K in COVID Relief...
The owner of three businesses, 50-year-old Jodi Aliece Jennings of Junction City, Oregon, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing over $487,386.75 in federal funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Junction City Woman Pleads Guilty To Stealing COVID Funds. On June 15, 2023, a federal grand jury in Eugene returned an...
Oregon says Lane County business will clean up giant pile of horse manure
The Oregon Department of Agriculture has settled a lawsuit with a Eugene-area business over a large pile of horse manure. Lakeview Stables is located about a mile from the Fern Ridge Reservoir. The ODA has accused the business of keeping at least 200,000 cubic feet of uncovered manure on its property.
Eugene Springfield Fire tackles blaze on Brewer Avenue; two cats missing, no human victims
EUGENE, Ore. — Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, Eugene Springfield Fire responded to a reported house fire in the Cal Young neighborhood. A passing motorist noticed the fire in the 2000 block of Brewer Avenue. Engine 9 from Valley River was in the area responding to...
Sizable industrial development planned near Eugene Airport
Amazon has purchased the land it plans to use for a distribution center in Eugene. Amazon.com Services LLC paid $2 million on Dec. 26 for a lot along Oregon Route 99 where the company intends to build a large e-commerce center. The sale was first reported by Eugene Weekly and confirmed by The Register-Guard, which...
Proposed Amazon center by Eugene airport to follow strict environmental rules
EUGENE, Ore. — We're learning more about the proposed Amazon distribution center that is set to be built near the Eugene airport. The center will be built inside the city's Clear Lake Overlay Zone - a specially regulated industrial area created to balance economic growth with environmental protections. The...
Doug Koke, local businessman and driver of Autzen Harley, dies at 73
There were few things Doug Koke liked better than firing up the ignition of that green 1996 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy and waiting for the roar that followed. “It’s pretty crazy when you start that thing up and (the fans) hear the motorcycle,” Koke told “College GameDay” in 2022. “They know that it’s getting close for...
Lane County, OR – Police Pursuit: Oakridge Woman Arrested After 100 MPH Chase
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Eugene, OR – An Oakridge woman was arrested early Monday morning after a high-speed police pursuit that began on Irving Road and ended near River Road in northwest Eugene, according to the Lane County...
Police ask for help finding owner of dog that bit child inside Eugene Albertsons...
Eugene Police are asking for public help finding a dog that bit a child at the Albertsons on 18th Avenue. Police say on Monday around 6 p.m. several people called 911 about a dog in the store that bit a 3-year-old. Officers arrived and found the dog and owner had...
Lookout PM: ICE protest downtown
About 180 people turned out in downtown Eugene today to protest ICE, following a federal immigration agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota: “Enough people, I hope, will see that and realize that enough is enough,” said one protester. Photographer Payton Bruni and reporter Jaime Adame were there to cover the...
Ambulance Involved in Tuesday Night Crash
A Gateway area crash that happened on Tuesday on Beltline involved a Coos Bay ambulance transporting a patient.
